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V. H. Blackinton & Company, Sterling
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Cliff Presley Collection
12/2/2004
Probably the rarest badge of its type, only two men were qualified to wear a Senior Airship pilot wing badge during World War II. Required 10 years of active Airship pilot service and 1,800 hours of military flight time. This badge was removed from a Blackinton factory sample board in the 1950s.
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Kinney Company
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Cliff Presley Collection
12/2/2004
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Kinney Co, Sterling
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Tod Rathbone Collection
1/24/2021
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Snowflake back (made by Wm. Link Company)
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Cliff Presley Collection
12/2/2004
This badge belonged to Colonel Gerald G. Johnston, USAAF.
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
This badge was made by the Wm. Link Company
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Tod Rathbone Collection
1/24/2021
This badge was made by the Wm. Link Company
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Meyer shield, Sterling
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
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Meyer shield, N.S. Meyer New York
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
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Meyer Shield, Sterling
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Tod Rathbone Collection
1/24/2021
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Meyer Shield
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Tod Rathbone Collection
1/24/2021
Silver wash over brass
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A. E. Co, Utica NY, Sterling
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
V. H. Blackinton Company badge bought in 1938 at the W. Stokes Kirk Army & Navy Store in Philadelphia, PA.
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Tod Rathbone Collection
1/24/2021
This is a Blackinton badge
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From Official Die, Sterling
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
This badge was worn by Major General Edmund W. Hill.
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B,B & B, Silver
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/12/2010
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B,B & B, Sterling
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The Mel R. E. "mtnman" Collection
11/02/2019
This is the extremely rare classical design beauty of the Bailey Banks & Biddle Airship Wing. This wing is attributed to the late Lt Col (AAF and USAF reserves WWII-1958) and Warrant Officer (Air Service, AAC etc regular army) Ronald Harrington Short, officer # AO - 168278. He flew airships in the interwar years in the Air Service and Army Air Corps, entering the reserves before World War II and called up as a Lt Col in WWII to serve in the 305th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force. He remained in the reserves after the war and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1958.
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Tod Rathbone Collection
1/24/2021
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3"
Sterling, Snow flake back
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Randy Scorby Collection
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Sterling
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John Vargas Collection
8/31/2001
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BB&B, Sterling
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Rich Witt
11/15/2001
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Snowflake Back (Amcraft)
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Russ Wilson Collection
03/19/2024
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Russ Wilson Collection
03/19/2024
There is a lot of discussion about the purpose of these gold colored wings. Some say its for an instructor and others say it may be for Gold Star mothers or a sweethart wing. There's also a thought that they may have just been for salesman sample boards. No matter what their purpose they are gorgeous and rare.
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Sterling
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Remi Biebuyck Collection
09/15/2024
This wing pattern was recently identified as being made by M.C. Lilley & Co
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
This little badge, made of gold, belonged to Colonel Angier H. Foster, but he could not remember why or if he ever used it. It's highly likely it was made by Kinney & Company like the marked example below.
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1 9/16"
Kinney & Company hallmark
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Cliff Presley Collection
1/4/2012
This badge may have been for use on an overseas cap.
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Cliff Presley Collection
12/2/2004
This badge belonged to Ronald H. Short, USAAC, Regular Army enlisted airship pilot.
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Cliff Presley Collection
9/11/2010
This badge also belonged to Ronald H. Short, USAAC, Regular Army enlisted airship pilot.
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Cliff Presley Collection
12/8/2013
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3 1/8" (wing) 4" (cloth)
7/8" (wing) 1 1/2" (cloth)
R. & J. Quetel Collection
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